How have you benefited from drinking Kefir?

Sorry KittyKat did not mean to press the thanks button. I used to drink Kefir, was madly passionate about it at one stage, but like all my routines, it fell apart.

Like you I had to disguise it as I never enjoyed it on its own. I did think at the time that I felt better, but I am not sure how much of that was psychological or the fact that I was actually in a routine.

It will be interesting to hear how other people feel about it. My grains are languishing in the fridge and have been there for about six months. They still seem fine.

Actually Kitty I do remember it helping with going to the loo - it made me v. regular! I really should get my grains going again. Even if it is psychological, I do remember feeling v. good about using such a natural product!

I don't want to sound stupid but what is it?

Ah, thank you, sounds interesting.

I still have my pot of kefir on the go and use it every day with my cereal. I've used it in smoothies and I like it in cheese sauce or white sauce.
I'm not sure to what extent my improved immune status is due to the kefir and what comes from having optimal Vitamin d status (4000iu/daily) I suspect it's the better Vitamin D status that really has cleared up my UTI's but as I like the kefir, as it costs nowt to make and is simply putting a bit of life back into our pasturised milk, it seems worth the effort of shaking the kefir grains into a sieve and moving them into a new jar of milk every few days and using the new kefir in my cereal/cooking.
I also regularly make/use probiotic yoghurt and I think that helps as well.Yogurt